Links of the Day: January 5

In the News:
By now you've probably heard how our representatives tried to cut off the power of their independent ethics watchdog, only to backtrack hours later. I'd just like to punctuate that story with a timely tweet:

Learning and Leading:
I found this to be a good reminder: TeachThought suggests 4 things all project-based learning teachers should do.

Curriculum and Cool Stuff:
Global/Biology: One of the beauties of science is that it can explore and reapply ideas from many different disciplines. For example, here's the story of how a defense of Christianity revolutionized brain science.